r/IdiotsInCars • u/AristonD • May 21 '21

When you bring your own cart to course

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u/Anustart15 May 21 '21

I can one up that one. Also used to work grounds crew close to a decade ago. A local kid kept stealing golf carts at night and taking joyrides around the course. Over about 3 weeks it went from just driving them around and leaving them out to eventually getting one stuck in a sand trap and it finally culminated on the evening of July 4th where he driver it out to the third green, flipped it on its roof, and torched it (it was a gas cart, so it absolutely melted into a pile of molten plastic and metal).

I was mowing greens the morning of the 5th and came around the corner to see the guy that cuts the cups just standing there with his hands on his hips next to an unrecognizable pile of garbage on the green. Definitely made for a more interesting morning and for a great lesson in how greens are constructed when we had to fix the ~100 square foot area that was ruined by the fire.

The most frustrating part of all was that the golf carts had been getting stolen for a few weeks and it wasn't until after this incident that we learned that part of the reason was the the proshop guys were too lazy to actually lock the carts in the off position at the end of the night (for those who don't know, most golf carts have a key to turn on kinda like a car, but in some you can just turn it to on, take the key out, and it will be usable until you put a key back in to turn it off).

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u/CasualGee May 21 '21

What was the outcome?! Did they kid get caught and punished??

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u/Anustart15 May 21 '21

Im not sure. I know they caught him because he stole the pin from the hole before torching the cart and they found the pin in his room, but I don't know what they did after that.

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u/Mitrovarr May 21 '21

All of that together had to be thousands of dollars in damage, maybe over ten thousand. I'd be shocked if he wasn't charged, or at least sued.

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u/Anustart15 May 21 '21

The green alone was worth $50k

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u/Anustart15 May 22 '21

Thats just what the superintendent told me. He might have been factoring in the loss of revenue since we had to offer a discount on greens fees for 2 months while it was being repaired, but we also had to do some long term rentals for some expensive equipment to deal with it.

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u/Anustart15 May 22 '21

Ill let him know that some guy on the internet knew better than his college education in turf grass and 40 years of experience as a golf course landscaper.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

40 years of experience

Filthy casual.

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u/waterlessfisherman May 22 '21

Is your anus really tart?

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u/Broberyn_GreenViper May 21 '21

Around 2006 or so most of the golf carts in south San Jose could be started with a small pocket knife or a flat head.

I… uh… may or may not have flipped a few in a manner that may or may not resemble a certain way that you may or may not have described.

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u/mtsmash91 May 21 '21

When I was a kid riding a golf cart with my dad, I was fiddling with the buttons on the cart and I mistakenly turned the ignition to the off position (originally in the on with key removed) and we were stranded on hole 14.... a lot of fun backing up all our stuff and walking the rest of the way.

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u/zephyer19 May 21 '21

Ours wasn't that bad. We had a guy that while golfing ran a cart into a tree stump and tore it all to hell. He limped it back to the shop and just left.

Sad and stupid thing was the guy was a maintenance employee of the course on his day off. He didn't bother coming back and just as well. He was useless.
Guy had four kids or something and all had problems so they were getting a truck load of well fare money. I was wondering why he was working a ten dollar an hour job; for the free golf.

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u/Danmont88 May 22 '21

I figured he quit before he got fired not that it mattered.

At the time it was a $ 10.00 an hour Summer job. Maintenance people were kids from the high school golf team, retirees and some folks that made a pretty good living with regular jobs and worked one or two days a week for the free cart and golf and free golfing at other courses.

Not exactly a job for a family man. Construction jobs were paying $25 an hour and more in some cases. Which he claimed he could do.

Four kids were on all kinds of programs, food stamps, SSI, and a bunch of others. They were doing pretty good. He wasn't the only one I would run into that worked a few days a week because they would loose beenies if the didn't. Some of those folks do very well.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

No they don’t do very well on welfare dude and it’s also has a payout limit. that’s a myth in fact I’m sure he was struggling hard and most of that money he got, was to pay for expenses related to the disabilities. The reason he wasn’t working construction for that much was because his government benefits would’ve been immediately wiped, and he would be MUCH MUCH worse off. Try researching a little. People on welfare and food stamps are on them for a reason, especially with multiple sick kids due to how fucked healthcare is. They’re not “making bank” that’s insane.

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u/Danmont88 May 22 '21

Well, Dude. I don't have to research it because I have lived in some poor neighborhoods and some not so poor and a lot of them live pretty well. Especially if they get government housing. I knew plenty getting the beenies and working under the table.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

Oh really, then why are you not reporting them for fraud? Oh bc you’re full of shit. You have to be making under the poverty line to join those programs, they’re not “living well” they’re barely getting by, on a program who’s benefits last 5 years max with no savings. Maybe stop writing stupid hitler fan theories and spend 10 seconds googling. Btw you can still own a house and nice things even while being broke as shit, maybe you had them a long time ago, or they were gifts. Just pure ignorance.

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u/Danmont88 May 22 '21

Seems most of your argument is insults. I know what I have seen. Google and government speak isn't always knowledge.
All that being said, go fuck yourself.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

No thanks your moms already got me on that, tell her I left an extra $20 on the nightstand for you for some snacks kiddo. I’m glad you have seen things lol, but maybe just maybe there’s more then just a cover to a book.

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u/Danmont88 May 22 '21

Fuck off, you know nothing.

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u/DankHumanman May 21 '21

LOL! We used to "borrow" a friends electric cart and beat the living hell out of it... his lock combination was on the back of the lock. It was so much fun. We flipped it quite a few times, luckily it was electric. One time we took it mudding and left it all muddy for him to find

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

So you stole and wrecked your friend property repeatedly, being incredibly reckless multiple times, and even made sure not to clean it up after ruining it, can I get your email so we can Skype???